Oh my! I love it with all the colors! I'm very bad at colors, but my first reaction is red. lol! Probably a bad one? I don't know. I can't wait to see what you choose! Thanks for the giveaway. You're a sweetheart!

Monitors are all a bit different, so my suggestion could be waaaaaaaaaaaaay off. From my computer a grey or greyish navy might look nice. I think the darker would make the background receed so the vortex is in the forefront. I don't think I would choose a red/orange/yellow since they would make the background come forward competing with the picing you have done. Do I make any sense at all? No matter, have fun - that's the most important part!

Awesome, awesome VIV, Dawn!!! Is the background of the applique really white because it looks tan in the picture. I vote against tan. Whichever colors you pick for the surround and applique will stand out in the center when you first look at the quilt so - which fabrics do you want to see first? I like the red polka dot and the green that ends about 5:00 o'clock. I think I'd pick one of them but I don't know about the other.

Wow Dawn! It's so not like what I was expecting...so different from the two colour version. Powerful! My vote would be go large scale colourful print for the background with a contrasting large print for the applique. If you're gonna go loud, you should go all out.

Since the centre is so different from the classic design I think you can afford to make the background different too. Perhaps a darker grey or brown grey with a pattern that reads solid, followed by a pieced border of the multi coloured squares around the edge. Amazing, whatever you do.

I love the square version without a border. I have no clue for a border color. I'd just keep auditioning until I found something I liked. Good luck with it! That's really neat that you are selling the pattern on Etsy.

I've had a good look and since you have some Kaffe's and bright fabrics I would go with either a complimentary colour from one of Kaffe's fabrics that you have used or a opposite of the colour wheel. If you love the blues in your vortex go with a purple or teal blue green or for contrast orange. If you love the pinks you can go purples or a citrus green. I would like to see a lovely blue green with applique in lime green and purple! But it is your quilt! Love the vortex!

Have you seen the circles of Flying Geese Judy Mathieson (sp?) puts around here Mariner's Compass creations? I'm wondering about trying something like that--using a shade of red or blue pulled from the quilt. But I also like it square--and I am a border person, so I would border it.

Can you come up with a pieced border that would twirl the other way? Maybe a square of each color, but moved one to the left. Otherwise, I kinda like the one you have, but in burgundy. VermontPines@aol.com

Wow! This is sooooo cool! Why don't you just send it to me and I will finish it for you! (Lol!!) I think something very simple. I'm not sure how big it is...is it too big to just bind (leaving it a circle) and hang on the wall?

*hmmmm* I have two ideas. One would be to leave it alone and finish it as a circle. The second would be to simply add a plain border (blue?) and leave off the applique or at least simplify the applique. The 'vortex' is quite busy as a scrappy piece and all the work of the applique is lost.

I like the idea of a square-ish quilt with a wide border to end the swirls. Maybe put a few twirling blocks into a pieced border to carry the movement from the quilt into the border. Good Luck! and WOWza - that is some quilt!

I love your version of Vortex. I think I would choose a deep red-orange for the applique and maybe somehow add a bit of the blue...the two colors that are together in the upper right of your photo. I'd choose the lighter surround. It will be gorgeous no matter how you finish. What a lot of work there!!!!!

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